Socket Now Protects the Microsoft Edge Extension Ecosystem
Brief
Today, Socket is expanding browser extension security to Microsoft Edge. Enterprise security teams can now evaluate extensions published through Microsoft Edge Add-ons and monitor new releases for malicious behavior, excessive permissions, data collection, suspicious infrastructure, and changes that introduce new risk.
This brings the same code and behavioral analysis already available for Chrome and Firefox to Microsoft’s extension ecosystem. Socket examines what an extension can access, what its code actually does, where it communicates, and how each release differs from the version an organization previously reviewed.
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Microsoft Edge Add-ons contains more than 32,000 active extensions. Because Microsoft Edge uses Chromium extension APIs, much of the same extension code can run in both Edge and Chrome.